I love me some BBC America (I'm a Top Gear junkie...though I could care less about cars) and recently started watching a new show Jamie's American Road Trip which stars Jamie Oliver. I can personally take or leave him but I like the Layover (Anthony Bourdain) and thought I would give it a go. Wow, what a humbling night that lead to. He had gone to NY but not in the way that normal shows go. He wasn't highlighting restaurants for you to go to when you are in town, he was highlighting the food that influences the city by the people that live there, the immigrants. Specifically he was looking for underground food, "restaurants" that were in people's homes that health code probably would crap bricks over. He featured a man named George...and that's when my life looked a whole lot amazing and a whole lot selfish. George, who was originally an illegal alien (no I'm not wanting to get political and discuss immigration) who eventually became an legal citizen of the US, but for many years … [Read more...]